So if you’re in China, and you want access to a banned site like YouTube, you just type YouTube.com into your browser, and the Telex station will see that connection, and disguise it as something innocuous. You might be watching YouTube, but to a censor, it will just seem as if you’re visiting a harmless, non-blocked site.

The hour is kinda late on this, I admit. But in about an hour and a half, the Houston Astros are scheduled to play the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin. If anyone reading along is willing and able to digitally record the game *and*make screenshots, I would be most appreciative. At least one veterans group is scheduled to serve as a Color Guard for the US flag, and I’d be interested in any and all shots of them that can be obtained. Obviously High Def would be best, but I’d appreciate *anything* that can be got. All I have is a VCR that hasn’t been used in a bit short of a *decade,* not even sure if it still works.

I would assume the color guard would do their thing *before* the game, but I don’t know the actual schedule on this.

Yesterday the crop duster went after the field just across the road. As a result, it flew really close to the house a few times. Surprisingly difficult to get photos of something trucking along at a hundred miles an hour at treetop level, coming at you from *behind* a house…

Twentieth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-7-2 design as drawn by Ed Baldwin in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-7-3 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-7-3 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 141

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 141

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

Some nights back I managed to take these craptacular photos of the one-eyed cat and two of her kittens. Scruffy also put in an appearance, and there didn’t seem to be any animosity; my guess would be that Scruffy is (or believes himself to be) the father.

Nineteenth in the series of reconstructed drawings from Paul Suhler’s book “From RAINBOW to GUSTO.” This is the Lockheed A-7-2 design as drawn by Ed Baldwin in January 1959. This particular drawing has a Source Grade of four:

“RAINBOW to GUSTO” is available from Amazon:

To download the high-rez version of the A-7-2 drawing, simply click THIS LINK. You will be prompted for a username and a password. For the A-7-2 drawing, use these:

Username: the FIRST word in the body of the text on page 140

Password: the LAST word in the body of the text on page 140

(Remember: Case Sensitive!)

ALSO NOTE: if all you get is a “red X,” that means the image is too large for your browser to display (I’ve not had a problem with Firefox, but have had with IE). In that event, simply hit the Back button to this page, and right click on the link above and save the image directly to your computer and view from there.

The San Diego Aerospace Museum has posted a Northrop video, “The Story of the Flying Wing.” While the video is faded and the audio is, frankly, painful, it remains of some real historical interest. This was clearly a video meant for the ignernt public, not as a promotional video to the Air Force, so it’s got a lot of dumbed-down in it, including a lot of cartoons.

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I think the narrator is the same narrator from “The War Of The Worlds,” which featured a Flying Wing dropping nukular whoopass on the Martians…

Another rare piece of early Dyna Soar color art. This one shows the Dyna Soar heading to space atop the centaur upper stage of an Atlas booster. And if you think you are seeing corrugations on the back of the spaceplane, you are correct. At this stage in the design process the Dyna Soar *did* […]

So the media is currently ulcerating over Trump suggesting that he’d like to see NFL owners fire players who decide to disrespect the US flag & anthem before games. Here’s the thing: 1: It’s the players right to disrespect the flag, the anthem, the US. 2: It’s any citizens right to say that he’d like […]

Yes, I’ve posted these before. But I feel it’s important for everyone to maintain a proper level of understanding of the encabulator, the turbo-encabulator and the retro-encabulator. And of course once you have an encabulator, you’ll need to diagnose it from time to time: There have of course been advances in the field […]

Argh. Facebook is not my favorite thing. But, apparently, it’s where all the cool kids hang out, so the Aerospace Projects Review Facebook page that I cobbled together years ago, I’ve started posting things in again. One of the weird things about Facebook is that you (apparently) can’t see a page unless you are signed […]

Oh, boy! Mayhem! A Group Of 62 Catholics Has Accused The Pope Of Spreading Heresy Not being Catholic, I have no dog in this fight. Still, it’s always entertaining when religious leaders tell other religious leaders they’re wrong. Wacky hijinks often ensue.

So, Star Trek Discovery plopped onto the airwaves tonight. My review: It was certainly pretty, but all those visuals were spoiled by a whole lot of “WTF am I looking at?” Especially with the “Klingons” who bore almost no relationship to any prior iteration of the Klingons, in biology, aesthetics or culture. Heck, they even […]

… in a drone: This is pretty much exactly the sort of footage that would have been impossible to get prior to the current generation of drones. So just imagine what people will be able to film once the batteries for drones are actually *good,* with the power and energy density of chemical fuels like […]

OK, let’s say your town is plagued by a transdimensional monster that takes the form of a killer psychotic clown. Who would be the best person to try to destroy this menace? That’s right, the goddamn Batman: And because why not: Bill Nye just walked into our elevator while I was snap chatting.. pic.twitter.com/LwCOITAEft […]

A deli worker was attacked, someone came across the counter and slashed at him with a knife. He fought back with a knife of his own, and the other guy got the worse of it. So, what happened? Did the city of New York throw the deli worker a ticker tape parade? Give him the […]